I must be dreaming. Three days in a row with no need to close windows nor run the air-conditioning. Gorgeous weather, can it really be August near Washington?
Temperatures are still getting up to 90 in the afternoon, but there is so little humidity that it’s comfortable to be active, work, or even exercise [...]
There is something very, very wrong with a society that thinks it is acceptable for police to violently kick down the door to a private family’s home, shoot the family dogs and physically restrain the family while they conduct a search for drug dealer materials or other incriminating evidence, all because a large package of [...]
So we wasted entirely too much time trying to figure out a really complex to diagnose bug at work. Turns out that the startup script for NTP v4 hangs hard if there is no networking enabled when ntp is started on an openSUSE 11 system. Because we run our openSUSE servers in a [...]
For those of you using Google Calendars and Mac OS X Desktops with iCal, you can finally keep them in sync without any 3rd party software. Google supports CalDav format now. Instructions are on the Google Calendar CalDAV support page.
I have mostly been relying on my Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop (v4.2.1) [...]
Many websites I am visiting seem slow today, taking 60-80 seconds of wall clock time to load. Ouch. Yet a quick visit to DSLreports.com reveals:
3947Kbps into my house seems to be pretty good, how does that compare with other results out there; it has been a while since I tested. I am [...]
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